Biography

"The soul is not digital."

Lara Porzak (b. 1967) is an American photographer living and working in Los Angeles. She works exclusively with analog methods dating back to the 19th century, including tintypes, gelatin silver lith, and wet collodion.

 

Porzak is particularly attached to the materiality of handmade photography, seeking to bring out its inherent magnetism. Working with soft focus and expressive tintypes, she explores the ambiguity between abstraction and figuration, evoking images that feel both distant and enduring. Her work has been described by the Los Angeles Times as combining "a photojournalistic style with the romantic influences of European photographers from the 1930s and 1940s," giving her photographs a timeless quality and strong sense of narrative. Her works are held in notable collections, including the J. Paul Getty Museum.

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